The security guard was also not immediately identified by authorities. ABC News' Luke Barr, Pierre Thomas, Mariama Jalloh, Victoria Arancio and Jessica Gorman contributed to this report.

A security guard was shot in the leg, Kelly said, but no other church members were injured. Strong said the guard's injury was not life-threatening and that he was awaiting surgery.

Newsday reported last year that at least 20 districts had hired or were planning to add armed guards to their campuses. Several of those districts hired Covert, along with other security companies.

In 2022, the MTA quietly signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Pennsylvania-headquartered Allied Universal Security Services for 500 guards charged with cracking down on turnstile-jumping.

They're hired with your tax dollars to keep the city's' most vulnerable safe - security guards for senior citizens who live in dozens of public housing buildings throughout New York City.

According to police data, officers are responding to the street, on average, about 200 times a month so far this year. Fire and medical services respond about every other day to the street. The ...

Private security officers do not have the legal powers that police officers have. Photos: Pixabay.com Security guards are the frontline defence for residents’ property, assets, employees, and ...

But security guards are not a panacea. For one thing, guards can be hard to hire. For its own security guard pilot program, Santa Fe, N.M., wanted 18 guards. Six months later, it still only has 12 ...

The Federal Protective Service in fiscal 2024 spent nearly $1.7 billion on contract guards to protect 2,500 facilities, but an October report from the Homeland Security Department Office of ...

Sacramento Protective Services said when its security guards arrived at the scene, they found the suspect with two women in a car. According to the guards, one of the women admitted they had all ...

Sacramento Protective Services told KCRA 3 in a statement that their guards "exercised extreme professionalism" while exercising their legal authority to detain the man for a trespassing violation.

The same security company provides services in Otterbein, where those who pay dues to the neighborhood’s security board can ask guards for a walk home. “What we’re doing, it’s not a slap ...